Many different types of synchronous clock motors were used, including the pre-World War II Hammond manual-start clocks.

Industrial Cape Breton has historically been a region of labour activism, electing Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( and later NDP ) MPs, and even produced many early members of the Communist Party of Canada in the pre-World War II era.

* Imperial-as an international investor, influence the politics of pre-World War I European empires.

South Korean conglomerates, called chaebol, are often compared to keiretsu, but the chaebol conglomerations are much more similar to a Western conglomerate like General Electric than pre-World War II zaibatsu.

After the generally primitivistic / irrationalist aspect of pre-World War I Modernism, which for many modernists precluded any attachment to merely political solutions, and the neoclassicism of the 1920s, as represented most famously by T. S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky — which rejected popular solutions to modern problems — the rise of Fascism, the Great Depression, and the march to war helped to radicalise a generation.

A form of asceticism was practiced by some individuals in pre-World War II European Jewish communities.

It is generally accepted that single weapons system types are much less effective without the support of the full combined arms team ; the pre-World War II notion of " tank fleets " has proven to be as unsound as the World War I idea of unsupported infantry attacks.

In Germany, numerous individuals and groups — collectively labeled Kommissarische Reichsregierungen ( KRR )— assert that the German Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders and that they are its government.

Buckland summarizes the very advanced pre-World War II development of microfilm-based rapid retrieval devices, specifically the microfilm-based workstation proposed by Leonard Townsend in 1938 and the microfilm and photoelectronic based selector, patented by Emanuel Goldberg during 1931.

Post-war the area was part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation and many of the remaining pre-World War II city buildings were destroyed, with only a few buildings near the cathedral restored to their pre-war state.

Examples of such plutocracies include the Roman Republic, some city-states in Ancient Greece, the civilization of Carthage, the Italian city-states / merchant republics of Venice, Florence, Genoa, and pre-World War II Empire of Japan zaibatsu.

This church, one of fewer than half a dozen surviving pre-World War II buildings in the entire area, forms the centrepiece of today's Kulturforum ( Cultural Forum ).

Deutsches Reich remained the official name of Germany until 1945, although these years saw three very different political systems more commonly referred to in English as: " the German Empire " ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ; this term is a pre-World War II coinage not used at the time ), and Nazi Germany ( the Third Reich ) ( 1933 – 1945 ).

It was essentially an updated version of the pre-World War II Škoda Popular.

* A road network designed to conform to a hierarchy, including culs-de-sac, leading to larger residential streets, in turn leading to large collector roads, in place of the grid pattern common to most central cities and pre-World War II suburbs.

The Beach is a representative type of pre-World War II suburban growth since it emerged slowly and piecemeal, and was inconsistent in pattern and form with a mix of housing types.

Never attempting to picture any one of these stories as a narrative, he used their veiled imagery as symbols of the archetypes of death – rebirth and destruction – creation he felt were imminent in the pre-World War I world.

** Hubert Latham, pioneer aviator of the pre-World War I era ( d. 1912 )

* November 11 – Walther Wever, German general and pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander ( d. 1936 )

The Salon de la Section d ' Or at the Galerie La Boétie in Paris, October 1912, was arguably the most important pre-World War I Cubist exhibition ; exposing Cubism to a wide audience.

The " town street " with Mali's Café shows typical Molde town houses from the pre-World War I period.

Białystok's pre-World War II Jewish population constituted about 63 percent of the city's total population of 107, 000.

Ginger is also a minor chemical irritant, and because of this was used as a horse suppository by pre-World War I mounted regiments for feaguing.

It has been read as a parable about the destruction of Victorian social values and the disintegration of pre-World War I English society, and Goole ’ s final speech has been interpreted variously as a quasi-Christian vision of hell and judgement, and as a Socialist party manifesto.

) Similarly, another one of Italy's leading baritones, Riccardo Stracciari, was unable to turn his pre-World War I London and New York operatic engagements into unambiguous triumphs due to an intrusive quiver in his tone.

Bertie displays a fondness for pre-World War I slang, peppering his speech with words and phrases such as " What ho!

The Russian heroic tenor Ivan Yershov was a renowned pre-World War I Otello in his native country.

Clarence Baptist Church was founded by thirty charter members in 1945, but its sanctuary on Louisiana Highway 6 dates to the pre-World War I era, having been the chapel of the former Camp Claiborne, a United States Army facility near Alexandria in Rapides Parish.

The park is also the former site of the Meadowbrook Polo Club, which played host to the cream of pre-World War I Long Island society.

The newspaper was started by the Russian Revolutionaries during pre-World War I days and emerged as a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution.

The act established the division as a basic Army unit, replacing the pre-World War I notion of the regiment in war planning.

The poets who began to emerge in the 1930s had two things in common ; they had all been born too late to have any real experience of the pre-World War I world and they grew up in a period of social, economic and political turmoil.

On a formal level, the Bosnian language began to take a distinctive shape in the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ): lexically, Islamic-Oriental loan words are becoming more frequent ; phonetically: the phoneme / x / is reinstated in many words as a distinct feature of vernacular Bosniak speech and language tradition ; also, there are some changes in grammar, morphology and orthography that reflect the Bosniak pre-World War I literary tradition, mainly that of the Bosniak renaissance at the beginning of the 20th century.

By 1928, agricultural and industrial production had been restored to the 1913 ( pre-World War I ) level.

George's reign of almost 50 years ( the longest in modern Greek history ) was characterized by territorial gains as Greece established its place in pre-World War I Europe.

During the pre-World War I years the river was also the border between the Slovene regions of Gorizia and Carniola.

Only one-third of the world's Armenian population lives in Armenia, and their pre-World War I population area was six times larger than that of present-day Armenia, including the eastern regions of Turkey, northern part of Iran, southern part of Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan regions of Azerbaijan.

During his tenure, Vienna ultimately changed its appearance as the capital of a great power of the pre-World War I era-an heritage that remained even in Red Vienna after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918.

In the Second World War, after Nazi Germany occupied the whole of Denmark, there was agitation by local Nazi leaders in Schleswig-Holstein to restore the pre-World War I border and re-annex to Germany the areas granted to Denmark after the plebiscite — as the Nazis did in Alsace-Lorraine at the same period.

The twin-engine heavy fighter was a major design class during the pre-World War II period.

In the pre-World War II period Adolf Hitler and his subordinates had great plans to transform Berlin into a center fit for his new empire.

' 22, was the last to serve out his term as Grand Regent in the pre-World War II period.

Many Jewish citizens of Tarnobrzeg emigrated to Palestine, later to become Israel, during the pre-World War II period.

During the pre-World War II period, Shijiazhuang was a large railway town as well as a commercial and collecting centre for Shanxi and the regions farther west and for the agricultural produce of the North China Plain, particularly for grain, tobacco, and cotton.

Hispano-Suiza ( literally: " Spanish-Swiss ") was a Spanish automotive and engineering firm, best known for its luxury cars and aviation engines in the pre-World War II period of the twentieth century.

During this pre-World War II period, several Italian and German advisors came to Portugal to help the PVDE to adopt a model similar to the Gestapo.

During the pre-World War One period, a number of speculators — including McSpadden and Odlum ( both of whom have nearby streets named for them ) -- attempted to turn the Grandview neighbourhood, centered on the Drive, into a real estate area comparable to the West End and the newly opened Shaughnessy Heights.

The railroad was at its height in the last decades of the 19th century and the pre-World War I period of the 20th century.

While the reciprocal phenomenon was mainly limited to spies and radicals postwar, in the pre-World War II period flight to the Soviet Union was reasonably common among revolutionary communists and other leftists, as well as members of smaller, subnational groups with little hope of revolutionary success at home, the most noteworthy of which being African-Americans.

After 1937 the Brougham name was not applied to any Cadillac for the remainder of the pre-World War II period.

The term generally refers to those built in North America in the pre-World War II period, but it can also be used more widely.

After the period of ‘ Seijo Higher School ’, under the pre-World War II education system, the present Seijo University was established in 1950.

Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as Tony Jannus ( July 22, 1889 – October 12, 1916 ), was an early American pilot whose aerial exploits were widely publicized in aviation's pre-World War I period.

Yoseikan Budo originated in 1931 as the style created by its founder Minoru Mochizuki ( 1907 – 2003 ), a high ranking student and assistant to Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo and Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, in the pre-World War II period.

Rackham had worked for AEC in the pre-World War I period.

In both aesthetic and technological terms, Singapore architecture may be divided into the more traditional pre-World War II colonial period, and the largely modern post-war and post-colonial period.